Mets Fan at Merrill Lynch Winds Up
With a Piece of Piazza's Infamous Bat

By

Aaron Lucchetti Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Oct. 26, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

NEW YORK -- It looks like little more than kindling, but to one sports memorabilia buff, a piece of the infamous splintered bat involved in the World Series hurling incident Sunday quickly has become a cherished souvenir.

The middle chunk of that much-discussed bat -- 21 inches to be exact -- apparently ended up in the hands of Ron Rosenberg, a Merrill Lynch & Co. executive, shortly after New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens threw the top part of the bat in the direction of Mets slugger Mike Piazza. Mr. Piazza had...